Millions of self respecting and respectable American homosexual men and women feel that the type of statements you are reported by the press as having made do not present to the uninformed public a true picture of the situation. Responsible persons with scientific information at their command are extremely careful today in their use of such phrases as, "pervert, degenerate, child-molester, maniac, etc."

May we recommend to your attention the careful and scholarly report of the Illinois Sex Offenders Commission, made for the legislature of that state by 150 attorneys, doctors, psychiatrists, educators and law enforcement officials. As reported in the Chicago Tribune, April 22, 1953, "The Commission found no 'warrant for hysteria' regarding the sex problem. Relatively few sex offenders are dangerous and the minor offenders do not as a rule graduate into dangerous offenders." We would be pleased to have your documentation of your statement, "There is a connection between the open operation of such bars and nightclubs with reported cases of child molestation." Would you also like to supply us with the type of legal steps you have in mind in urging Dade officials to move against "the open, public congregation in bars and other public places of known perverts"? As you are quite aware law provides punishment for acts, but not states of being? The definition of "pervert" which will stand legal and scientific scrutiny is one that would have most carefully to be made, would you not say?

We feel sure that the work of your Commission is genuinely intended to work for the betterment of conditions in Greater Miami. However, we do feel it only fair to let you know that homosexual citizens of United States have no slightest intention of standing by without protest against unscientific and unconstitutional procedures, as have sometimes been permitted in certain cities. As The Homosexual Magazine, ONE must necessarily give full coverage in its columns to activities such as your Commission is reported as sponsoring.

Please accept our fullest assurance that ONE at all times wishes to be fair and present both sides of public questions concerning homosexuality and sex deviation. If you wish to make comment we will be glad to give your statements space in our columns.

Very truly yours,

DALE JENNINGS, Editor

WOMEN!

The February issue will be written and edited entirely by the female of our species. If you've wondered what makes these strange creatures tick, here's your chance to find out at no extra cost. They wax basic in a doctor's analysis of what makes a Lesbian a Lesbian, a challenging article on the "natural" superiority of women and a broadside at both homosexual and heterosexual males. The cover will be a brilliant photograph taken for ONE by an internationally celebrated artist. But the best thing about the whole February issue is that the editor will get a thirty day vacation...

page 21